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English: The former social club at Dolgarrog

According to Historypoints.org:- When the Aluminium Corporation came to the area in 1907 to build a factory for smelting and rolling aluminium, it took over the hotel and renamed it The Dolgarrog. It was run by the works secretary as a temperance establishment and a sort of club for managers of the company.

It was later re-named the Porth Llwyd Hotel. In 1925 it was damaged by floodwaters from the breaching of the Eigiau and Coedty dams. The manager’s wife was the first to give an alert of the disaster, in which 10 adults and six children were drowned. She and her staff had to be helped to safety through chest-deep floodwater, by some local boy scouts. The hotel’s annexe – which comprised a dining room, billiard room and six bedrooms – was swept away.

In 1927 it was taken over by the Royal British Legion, which erected the village's war memorial in the same year. The branch in the village was the RBL’s first branch in Wales. In much more recent times it became the Dolgarrog and District Social Club. Now called Tafarn y Garrog, it’s the only social centre in the village but lack of support is posing a threat to its future. (It has since closed.)